$750,000 Grant to Help Local Teachers and Students Connect
to Region's Past

U.S. Department of Education Region 5 Representative Kristine Cohn will present
a $750,000 grant for the project "U.S. History through the Heartland along the
I-94 Corridor" to the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, UW-Stout and Cooperative
Educational Services Agency (CESA) 11 at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 18 at the
historic Mabel Tainter Theater in Menomonie, Wis.

The grant will fund a three-year project for history teachers to learn local
and regional history in order to explore connections to historical events on
a national level. Ultimately, teachers will adopt this content knowledge of
local and regional history into their classrooms to further engage their students
when studying U.S. history.